Mill for grinding corn with the cob



MILLER, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

JAMES M.

MILL FOR GRINDING CORN WITH THE COB.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 2,923, dated January 20, 1843.

manner as that it shall serve the purpose of bark, which must, however, be first reduced a conducto-r, or hopper, to conduct the ears into strips so as ,to pass through thetube E.

of corn, or the pieces of bark, on to the Toward the center, the stones should be open lower, or bed, stone, which holds knives, or about three-fourthsof an inch; the opening, 65 cutters, between which and the balance rine or space, diminishing gradually in Y apthe ears of corn, or other articles, are to be proaching toward. t-he periphery, where cut into pieces sufficiently small to allow they may be dresed fiat, to such distance as 2O them to pass between the stones. For the may be required. y purpose of holding the funnel-formed tube The same stones may be used'for shelling 70 in place in the eye of the runner, I place a corn, or forvthe purpose of grinding grain. p plug, or block, of wood, or other suitable For the former purpose, all that is necessary substance, in the eye, and perforate it in is to elevate the runner so as to have a suitsuch manner as that the upper end of the able space for the passing rin o-f the ears as tube, when inserted in said perforation,shall they descend through the tube; the grain 75 be in the center of the stone, and its lower must subsequently be separated fro-m the end over the knives, or cutters, in the bed bIOkeH CObS by IlfleallsY of a fanning mill. stone, which knives are close to the bushing For grinding grain, the wooden plug and that surrounds the spindle. the co-nducting tube are to be removed and In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1, the ordinary hopper put in place. I men- 80 is a vertical section through the centers of tion this for the purpose of showing how the mill stones. Fig. 2, shows the face of readily mill stones now in use, may be the upper, and Fig. 3, of the lower mill adapted to the purpose of cutting up and stones. grinding ears of corn, and other articles,

A, is the upper, and B, the lower mill without interfering with their application to 85 stone; C, the spindle, and D, a balance rine, ordinary grinding. which IV make straight, as represented -in Vhat I claim as new in th-e foregoing, and the drawing. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

E, is the conducting tube, funnel, or hop- The maner of arranging and combining per, through which the corn,'or other article, the tube, or funnel E, the cutting knives 90 is to be fed. This tube is so curved, or and the straight balance rine, for the. pur` formed, as that its upper end shall coincide pose, and substantially in the manner, herewith the center of the stone,hir11 order to in set forth.

facilitate the feeding into it, w i e its lower 1 end shall be immediately above one knife, J' M' MILLER' To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES M. MILLER, of the city of Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful manner of grinding corn in the ear, bark for tanning, and other articles, by combining certain apparatus necessary for that purpose, with ordinary mill stones; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

In the center of the upper stone, or runner, I place a funnel-formed tube in such corn, or other article, is cut off between the two, by an action resembling that of shears.

F, is a block or plug, of wood which is driven into the eye of the runner, and serves to hold the tube E, in place.

G, is the cavity in the runner within which the balance rine D, is to be received.

The ears of corn, as they are fed in, are. cut by the knives and balance rine, or driver, into pieces suiiiciently small to pass between the stones, and to be gound by them as may be required; the same is the case with or two, or more, knives a, a, atliXed in the Witnesses: bed stone. The balance rine D, comes nearly B. H. ELLIOTT, into contact with the knives a, a, and the A. PHELPS. 

